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The Ryugyong Hotel, at 105 floors, is one of the largest cement buildings ever constructed. Still unfinished, the project began in 1987 but progress stagnated after massive famine in North Korea forced funds elsewhere. Although vacant, it now dominates the Pyongyang skies as an ominous, unlit reminder of the supremacy of the Kim dynasty.
North Koreans girls walk together in central Pyongyang, North Korea Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
A North Korean student works at a computer terminal inside a computer lab at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, North Korea on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 during a tour by Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt. Schmidt is the highest-profile U.S. executive to visit North Korea - a country with notoriously restrictive online policies - since young leader Kim Jong Un took power a year ago. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)